This material is based upon work supported by the National Science
Foundation under grant No. PHY0922794.

The Large multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA) was constructed in
the Summer of 2010. LISA will be used to detect neutrons in the range of 0-100
MeV at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) in combination
with the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) and Sweeper dipole superconducting magnet.
With only MoNA, there is low detection efficiency when decay energy is greater
than 1.5 MeV and one of the improvements that LISA will grant is more efficient
detection of neutrons from decays of greater energies, allowing new physics
to be explored. LISA modules consist of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and voltage
divider assembly to both ends of 2 meter organic plastic scintillator acrylic
bars. Nine different institutions each constructed sixteen bars, resulting
in a total
of 144 bars
that together make up LISA. Undergraduates at each of these institutions will
be conducting small scale experiments with their bars before shipping them
to the NSCL in January.